Andrew Presa, finance major, and Josie Kranick, marketing major, will be the ASLMU president and executive vice president for the 2026-27 school year.
Andrew Presa, finance major, and Josie Kranick, marketing major, will be ASLMU’s president and executive vice president for the 2026-27 academic year, winning the election with 53% of the votes. After a week-long campaign, Presa and Kranick were announced as LMU’s next student leaders on Thursday, March 26 in The Living Room by ASLMU Elections Chair Alexis Segovia, political science and Spanish double major.
Presa and Kranick ran on the platform of “Believe, belong, become.” Their campaign values reflected this, with the duo hoping to promote transparency and trust, foster community and empower student growth and leadership.
“I think at the end of the day, our campaign values are just all about service,” said Presa. “We both come from backgrounds of service and wanting to help other people, and so that’s going to be the first thing we lead with — making sure that we’re supporting all students, making sure that they all have equal access to all the resources that they can.”
Presa has past experience with ASLMU, having previously served as the assistant chief financial officer, according to the campaign Instagram. Kranick is currently the vice president of membership for Kappa Alpha Theta and a member of Delta Sigma Pi.
Per ASLMU Elections Code, the president and executive vice president candidates must receive more than 50% of the first-choice votes in order to be declared the winner. None of the three presidential tickets achieved that benchmark, so an “instant runoff process” was conducted. Ballots that were cast for the candidate with the least amount of votes were removed, leaving Presa and Kranick with 53% of the vote.
This year’s election resulted in 28.6% students voting. Organizations with 100% voter turnout included Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Marians, Gryphon Circle, Magis Service Organization, Sursum Corda and Crimson Circle. Those with 100% voter turnout won a $150 donation to a nonprofit of the organization’s choice.
“I think what we did well was the giveaways that we did, that got a lot of first-time voters,” said Segovia. “I noticed that while I was tabling, I had a lot of people say, ‘I would have never voted if you guys didn’t have these incentives’ … I don’t think there’s much that we could have done better. I think with the website being down, it was a little bit more inaccessible, but we’re of course working on getting that back up.”
With 52.52% of the vote, Felix Fuglei, entrepreneurship major, was elected as the vice president of academic affairs.
With 57.1% of the vote, Emily Hernandez, marketing major, was elected as the vice president of cultural affairs and justice.
With 95% of the vote, Christopher de Jesus Perez, finance major, was elected as the vice president of student wellness.
No one ran for the vice president of sustainability and the position currently stands open. According to Chelsea Brown, associate director for student engagement in the Pam Rector Center for Service and Action, the position will be filled through application.
Of the five candidates, all were elected to the senator-at-large position. The three vacant Senate seats will be filled by appointment alongside the following senators for the 2026-27 academic year: Taye Hines, communication studies major, Jeanette Gomez, marketing major, Ana Butovich, business administration undeclared major, Manny Lopez, accounting major, and Christian Datwyler, finance major.
Presa and Kranick will take over from former ASLMU President D’Anthony Yates, biology major, and ASLMU Vice President Isla Del Carlo, English major. Preparations for the new leaders will begin immediately.